Greater Friendship Baptist Church SSFFF
God’s Love
Dr. Derrick L.Miles, Pastor
True to his pattern of developing the same subjects, each time broadening, expanding, and enhancing their significance, John returns once again to the moral test of love.
These verses constitute one long unit describing what perfect love is and that it is now available to men.
In John's third and last discussion of love in this letter, he gives 5 reasons why Christians love.
1. (vs7) This phrase (in verse 7), is the _______________________to the entire section.
2. The original conveys the idea of making sure that love is a _______________________ practice.
3. Since God's nature exhibits love as a chief _______________________, God's children will also reflect that love.
4. One of the main things that_______________________ Christians from the world is the great love that we have for our brothers and sisters in Christ.
5. (vs8) Someone may profess to be a _______________________ but only those who display love like their heavenly Father actually possess His divine nature and are truly born again.
6. There is a need in every person to be_______________________.
7. (vs9) John introduces the reader to the second of 5 reasons why Christians love to follow the supreme
example of God's sacrificial love in sending His _______________________for us.
8. The judgment of _______________________on the cross was the supreme example of God's love, for He poured out His wrath on His beloved Son in place of sinners (John 3:14-16; Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 5:1-2).
9. God loved all of _______________________, one at a time from the very beginning.
If He did not, why would He have bothered to create us in the first place?
10. (vs10) “_______________________":In this verse means appeasement or satisfaction.
11. He did not wait until we had _______________________ up our lives to save us. He saved us, and then helped us clean up our lives.
12. The _______________________ love of God for man is made real to us in this.
13. (vs11) God's sending His Son gives Christians not only _______________________privilege, but obligation to follow this pattern of sacrificial love.
14. Christians love must be ______________________________________like God's love.
15. (vs12) John introduces the reader to the third of 5 reasons why Christians love: because love is the
heart of Christian _______________________.
16. The more “_______________________” of Jesus we are, the more love we have for others.
17. (vs13) John introduces the reader to the fourth of 5 reasons why Christians love: because love is the
Christian's _______________________.
18. When Jesus went to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, He _______________________to send the Holy Spirit to dwell within each of us.
19. (vs14) The purpose of the _______________________ of God in the form of flesh on the earth was for the salvation of all of mankind.
20. He took on the name Jesus, because it means _______________________.
21. (vs15) Confess is to tell the _______________________. We know in our heart, and confess with our mouth as verification that we are full of Jesus.
22. (vs16) If we are filled with God's _______________________to this extent, it should spring forth from us to others we are in contact with.
23. (vs17) John introduces the reader to the fifth reason why Christians love: Because love is the
Christian's confidence in_______________________
24. He is not suggesting sinless _______________________, but rather mature love marked by confidence in the face of judgment. Confidence is a sign that love is mature.
25 (vs18) . It is _______________________ to please God, if we fear. Fear is of the devil. Faith is of God.
26. (vs19) He taught us how to love when He showed us by _______________________. He loved us, and showed us how to love Him.
27. (vs20) To_______________________our love for God, we must express it through His children. When we love our brothers on the earth, we are in turn loving Jesus who made them.
28. (vs21) One cannot l_______________________ God without first loving his fellow believer.
29. Love and hate are opposites and cannot_______________________in the same place.